they’ve had a few SSL certificate renewal issues and the way they dealt with that was very dodgy (asking to just ignore it)

also manjaro beginners seem to often use the AUR which isn’t really supported for manjaro and break their install in the process

same, that’s why I like neon/debian a lot

there’s:

• KDE neon (sorta dodgy but always has the newest KDE release on top of ubuntu)
• Kubuntu (KDE on ubuntu but a bit old)
• Debian+KDE (KDE but a good few months old)

I wouldn’t recommend manjaro, they’re very dodgy

Opensuse is pretty good, iirc they have a GUI for most configuration items and you get the newest packages for everything. it’s like easier arch

the nvidia website doesn’t list the drivers because they should be downloaded from the arch repos instead

arch is generally easier for more complex stuff, can’t really think of anything that you can’t do with it

yes I know archinstall, no I don’t think it should be how someone installs arch for the first time.

the manual install for arch is pretty simple if you just read the wiki and you learn so much troubleshooting information from it. if someone is trying arch they should definitely go through the manual process

plain debian maybe? it’s a bit more manual but not to the extent of arch, and the netinstaller is really nice

if you are motivated to learn Linux I really can’t recommend trying something basic like debian, arch, alpine etc enough

ah yeah, that’s fair.

i’ve found the fw13 keyboard and the thinkpad xx30 keyboards are pretty good, but even the xx30 ones are extremely dependent on the age and manufacturer, so it’s basically just luck at this point

how do you find the keyboard? I’ve tried typing on a few macbooks but my fingers could never get used to it